Types of Clouds

1. Clouds!
By: Jason Godfrey
Period 3

2. Stratus Clouds---
 A Stratus is a low-level cloud that is flat, hazy,
featureless, and gray.
 A Nimbostratus has light precipitation, dark, and low-
lying.
 Nimbus means rain.

3. Cumulus Clouds---
 A Cumulus is puffy, cotton-like, and it has clear edges.
 Stratocumulus is low-lying, blanket of cumulus, large,
and rounded.
 Cumulonimbus is tall, dense, puffy, they produce
lightning, heavy rain, wind, tornadoes.
 Fractus: is forms under a stratus level.

4. Alto Clouds---
 Altocumulus are rolls of cumulus clouds.
 Altostratus is a mid-level stratus blanket.

5. Cirrus Clouds---
 Cirrus is a white, wispy, stretched cotton like cloud.
 Cirrocumulus is pinkie-nail sized.
 Cirrostratus is nearly transparent, and they produce a
halo sun.
 Contrails are the condensation left by jets.